Re: Touchpad, was Re: The next meeting / workshop / clinic.

2003-02-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Rob Freeman wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 9:44 am, you wrote: [...] My distro is old, but the kernel is reasonably new: 2.4.18 + If you are using the stock redhat kernel just look into the src package to see how many patches have been added (and not all of them are up

Re: C++/gcc problems

2003-02-03 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:55:15PM +, Paul wrote: Works fine for me, with a deprecated error message (see below). Your error messages indicate that iostream.h is not being included properly. I have no idea why. Try compiling with the -Wall switch (turn all warnings on). tnw13_l

Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi All, I have a box that a chap I know would be willing to donate to the CLUG or another worthy organisation if anyone wants it. He would prefer to swap it for a couple 20GB drives but it's not necessary as the machine is taking up space in his garage. I paste the details below. Please let

Re: Strange Screen Settings in Slackware 8.0

2003-02-03 Thread Gareth Williams
A thought I had, for X ... if you think your laptop (this is on a laptop, right?) screen is capable of 1024x768 (hey, your graphics card seems to be :) you might wanna read up on your machine (try that laptops site someone mentinoed) and check in your XF86Config file that your Horizontal Sync

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Gareth Williams
How many people are interested in playing with something like this? I'd guess there are quite a few (I know I am). A machine like this would be a good asset for CLUG to have... (argh, I said the dreaded 'a word' - that's right, we don't want assets do we, or things'll get most complicated ;) -

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Rex Johnston
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:57, Gareth Williams wrote: How many people are interested in playing with something like this? I'd guess On Tuesday 04 February 2003 09:02, Jason Greenwood wrote: I have a box that a chap I know would be willing to donate to the CLUG Data General Aviion 8500 Unix

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Jason Greenwood
I have forwarded a few questions to the boxes owner and will post his response to the list. Cheers Jason Rex Johnston wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:57, Gareth Williams wrote: How many people are interested in playing with something like this? I'd guess

Open ms publisher doc in open software?

2003-02-03 Thread Nick Rout
I just got emailed a publisher document. I don't have publisher installed, I have openoffice and I can also switch over to linux and install some other program to help out. Does anyone know of any open/free tools to deal with publisher docs, win or lin? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open ms publisher doc in open software?

2003-02-03 Thread C Falconer
send it to me and I'll PDF it for ya, then send it back. On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 11:46, Nick Rout wrote: I just got emailed a publisher document. I don't have publisher installed, I have openoffice and I can also switch over to linux and install some other program to help out. Does anyone

Re: Open ms publisher doc in open software?

2003-02-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:46, Nick Rout wrote: I just got emailed a publisher document. I don't have publisher installed, I have openoffice and I can also switch over to linux and install some other program to help out. Does anyone know of any open/free tools to deal with publisher docs, win or

Re: Open ms publisher doc in open software?

2003-02-03 Thread Carl Cerecke
Nick Rout wrote: I just got emailed a publisher document. I don't have publisher installed, I have openoffice and I can also switch over to linux and install some other program to help out. Does anyone know of any open/free tools to deal with publisher docs, win or lin? I Linux, I use strings

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Jason Greenwood
Ok all, here's more info =) Hi, It does have ethernet and it normally runs dg-ux, which is a firm of unix from data general. The operating system was erased by the previous user who was paranoid about security. They also would not give me a copy of the software. However, I am sure

Re: Open ms publisher doc in open software?

2003-02-03 Thread John Carter
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Carl Cerecke wrote: I Linux, I use strings filename | less. The formatting sucks, but the content is usually there. tr -c '[:print:]\r' ' ' | perl -npe 's{\r}{\n\n}g' | fold -s Does something about the formatting as well. There is extra bonus information as well. Yip.

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Zane Gilmore
Is there no possibility that it will run Linux? What kind of CPUs do they have? On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:07, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok all, here's more info =) Hi, It does have ethernet and it normally runs dg-ux, which is a firm of unix from data general. The operating system was

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Nick Rout
http://www.netbsd.org/ seems to work on the boggest variety of hardware out there... May be worth a look to see if it runs on these machines. On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:07:44 +1300 Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok all, here's more info =) Hi, It does have ethernet and it

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yup, I'll leave it to the *Unixers* on this list to see if it is wanted/usable or not. If not, I'll tell him to flog it elsewhere. Cheers Jason PS, I am working on my topic choices for the meeting and will have some options for everyone soon. Nick Rout wrote: http://www.netbsd.org/

Adding page numbers to PDF/PS book

2003-02-03 Thread Carl Cerecke
I've got a book with 300 pages in PDF. The contents pages refer to page numbers, but the book itself has no page numbers on any of the pages. Is there anyway I can add page numbers onto each page in the PDF or convert to PS and add the numbers to the PS? Cheers, Carl.

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Rex Johnston
Zane Gilmore wrote: Is there no possibility that it will run Linux? Not this year. :) OpenBSD might run on it OK, but i doubt the storage array would work. What kind of CPUs do they have? Motorola 88100 RISC. Probably 50MHz each. Rex

Re: Adding page numbers to PDF/PS book

2003-02-03 Thread C Falconer
Print some page numbers on 300 pages, then print the PDF onto those pages? On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:55, Carl Cerecke wrote: I've got a book with 300 pages in PDF. The contents pages refer to page numbers, but the book itself has no page numbers on any of the pages. Is there anyway I can

Re: Touchpad, was Re: The next meeting / workshop / clinic.

2003-02-03 Thread Rob Freeman
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 8:43 am, you wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Rob Freeman wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 9:44 am, you wrote: [...] My distro is old, but the kernel is reasonably new: 2.4.18 + If you are using the stock redhat kernel just look into the src package to see how

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Nick Rout
hmm inverstigations reveal even netbsd doesn't seem to run on it yet. On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 14:20:37 +1300 Rex Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zane Gilmore wrote: Is there no possibility that it will run Linux? Not this year. :) OpenBSD might run on it OK, but i doubt the storage array

Re: Adding page numbers to PDF/PS book

2003-02-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:55, Carl Cerecke wrote: I've got a book with 300 pages in PDF. The contents pages refer to page numbers, but the book itself has no page numbers on any of the pages. Is there anyway I can add page numbers onto each page in the PDF or convert to PS and add the numbers

IPCop or Modem Problem?

2003-02-03 Thread David Kirk
The Internet connection for the OSTC seems very unreliable. It has gone down 110 times in the last 3 days and has a maximum uptime of 3h:37m. I am using IPCop v1.20 and I have a Alcatel SpeedTouch Home ADSL Modem. I am trying to figure out if my problem is with my IPCop configuration or if my

Re: IPCop or Modem Problem?

2003-02-03 Thread C Falconer
Its not really much use, but I had an Alcatel running fine for weeks on a linux box. Could it be a dodgy DSL location? On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 15:21, David Kirk wrote: The Internet connection for the OSTC seems very unreliable. It has gone down 110 times in the last 3 days and has a maximum

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:51, Jason Greenwood wrote: Yup, I'll leave it to the *Unixers* on this list to see if it is wanted/usable or not. If not, I'll tell him to flog it elsewhere. It's only usable if an o/s can found for it. quote orig message Some spare drives as well. /quote orig message

Re: Adding page numbers to PDF/PS book

2003-02-03 Thread Carl Cerecke
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:55, Carl Cerecke wrote: I've got a book with 300 pages in PDF. The contents pages refer to page numbers, but the book itself has no page numbers on any of the pages. Is there anyway I can add page numbers onto each page in the PDF or convert to

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Benjamin Devine
Christopher Sawtell said: On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:51, Jason Greenwood wrote: Yup, I'll leave it to the *Unixers* on this list to see if it is wanted/usable or not. If not, I'll tell him to flog it elsewhere. It's only usable if an o/s can found for it. quote orig message Some spare drives

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Nick Rout
and do exactly what without an os? On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 16:33:20 +1300 (NZDT) Benjamin Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Sawtell said: I could make a home for the whole unit :) /--\ | Ben Devine | | 'Muhaha, Muhahaha,

Re: IPCop or Modem Problem?

2003-02-03 Thread Adrian Stacey
Suggesting the obvious first, is the modem set to stay connected or DOD, the way you're using it requires the former. Horror to suggest but a simple winders box may be the best option to troubleshoot the connection... I tend to think the firewall shouldn't cause the problem. Adrian